| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro -- After Auschwitz -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- New Perspectives on the GDR: A Plea for a Paradigm Shift -- Part I -- German Democratic Republic -- Chapter 1 -- The Loyalty Trap: Wolfgang Steinitz and the Generation of GDR-Founding Fathers and Mothers -- Chapter 2 -- The Effects of a Taboo: Jews and Antisemitism in the GDR -- Chapter 3 -- Divided City-Shared Memory? Dealing with the Nazi Past in East and West Berlin from 1948 to 1961 -- Chapter 4 -- The GDR and Opposition from the Right: A Plea for Broader Perspectives |
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Chapter 5 -- The GDR's Judgment against Hans Globke: On the Conviction of the Nazi Lawyer and Head of the Federal Chancellery under Konrad Adenauer by the Supreme Court of the GDR in the Summer of 1963 -- Chapter 6 -- Might through Morality? Some Comments on Antifascism in the GDR -- Chapter 7 -- Toward a Sociology of Intelligence Agents: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Service as an Example -- Chapter 8 -- At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s -- Chapter 9 -- Holocaust Lite? Fiction in Works by Christa Wolf and Fred Wander |
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Chapter 10 -- The Stigma of "Asociality" in the GDR: Reconstructing the Language of Marginalization -- Chapter 11 -- Lesbians and Gays in the GDR: Self-Organizing, Politics of Remembrance, Discrimination, and Public Silencing -- Chapter 12 -- Have We Learned the "Right" Lessons from History? Antigypsyism and How the GDR Dealt with Sinti and Roma -- Chapter 13 -- The GDR People's Chamber Declaration of 12 April 1990: Ending the "Universalization" of the Holocaust -- Part II -- Federal Republic of Germany |
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Chapter 14 -- Understanding Silence: On an Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown -- Chapter 15 -- "A Reassessment of European History?" Developments, Trends, and Problems of a Culture of Remembrance of Europe -- Chapter 16 -- Analogies and Imblanaces: The Effects of Memorial Site Policies on Dealing with Places from the GDR Past on NS Reappraisal -- Chapter 17 -- From the Ideological Repudiation of Culpability to Ethnocentric Propaganda -- Chapter 18 -- The Book and the Audience: Comments on the Reception of Undeclared Wars with Israel in Germany |
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Chapter 19 -- Another Past That Lives On: My Trying Journey from Contemporary Witness to Contemporary Historian -- Chapter 20 -- Nonconformity in a German Postwar Society: Questions for GDR and Transformation Studies -- Chapter 21 -- Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin -- Index |
| Summary |
From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR's legacy cannot be understood in isolation from the Nazi era nor the political upheavals of today. This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society--including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism--to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Germany (East) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90002752
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Germany (East) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054666
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| Subject |
Germany (East)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heitzer, Enrico, 1977- editor.
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Kahane, Anetta, 1954- editor.
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Jander, Martin, editor
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Poutrus, Patrice G., editor
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| ISBN |
9781789208535 |
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178920853X |
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